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cookery

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1393, OED Evaluation: N/A

The art or practice of cooking, the preparation of food by means of fire.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Who got the meals? Interviewer: Um, th-- there'd be a cook and two cookees, a cookee he baked- baked the bread and- and uh, done the cooking of the meat and the beans an- and he- thee- would make pies and cookies and then the cookees they were- they were uh, responsible for putting on the- the food onto the tables and washing up the dishes- Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: And uh, taking in the wood for the cookery- Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: And uh, carrying the water for the cookery.
The art or practice of cooking, the preparation of food by means of fire.
And the- the teamster's are alone and uh the cookery, it was- it was by itself. It was a big cookery.
A cooking establishment; a kitchen; a cook-shop.
ExampleMeaning
I remember being a little girl and going down to the cookery and us giving him a piece a pie.
A cooking establishment; a kitchen; a cook-shop.
ExampleMeaning
Then there was the cookery where everybody ate.
A cooking establishment; a kitchen; a cook-shop.
Speaker: And what they call a bull cook. Interviewer: Oh what's- what's that? Speaker: A bull cook is ah like your several cabins where the men stayed in. Like sleep cabins. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Then there was the cookery where everybody ate. Well the bull cook had to keep the- the places um clean. And keep wood- wood in there, water in there. There was no running water. It was all done by- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Bring it in by pail eh? Interviewer: Mm-hm, mm-hm. Speaker: Chop the wood and keep the fires going and make sure there's enough wood in there for the night. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Then you'd go and help the cook because you'd clean up in there too and ah you got to involve them with ah ah washing and trying to h-- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: That's a bull cook.
A cooking establishment; a kitchen; a cook-shop.
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One time, ah, two of us stayed in the camp one night. The bear wanted to- be- get in the cookery. So, um, the door was- was there and then there was a two-by-four like that, eh?
A cooking establishment; a kitchen; a cook-shop.
ExampleMeaning
Out there? Well, it was a camp, you-know, and he, ah- it w-- they had the cookery or the- where they had the- you-know, like a- c-- it wasn't a cafeteria, but it was a- a, big hall where the p-- men would come in to eat their meals, and he'd- he'd cook all these meals not on electric stove, it was on a wood stove.
A cooking establishment; a kitchen; a cook-shop.